MAN WITH NO WATCH
HOW HE KNEW THE TIME. "THE CLOCK ' IN ' THE BAR." "Do you know the difference between a good suit and an old one?" asked the Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, of a witness in j the . Supreme Court in Wellington last week. ■■ . / ..- ; "Well, you see, Mr. ■Stout," confidentially replied the witness, "I am not used to • good '.. clothes." / (Laughter.) * "But you surely know the difference?" said the Chief Justice. '•', "Oh, yes; 1 know whether, they are, ragged or L not," replied the ■ witness, who gave v; his occupation ;as /a/ baker. .:-. / • ■; "Have you a watch?" the Chief Justice later inquired. i ; , ' ' ■"■ ''X "No; I have not got : a watch. ; I cannot afford it," replied .witness. */ The Chief Justice: ?%.!•■ should ; have thought that a man who could afford beer could afford a watch. ~ "Every man to., his taste,'' said the witness, amid laughter. I Then, how do you 'tell the-, time?—By ; the clock in the bar. (Laughter.)
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18706, 12 May 1924, Page 12
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